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W. P. WYMAN. SKIRT PROTECTOR MATERIAL.

(No Model.)

No. 604,818. Patented May 31,1898.

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EJPEUIIFICA'EION forming part of letters Patent lilo. 604,818, dated may 31, 1898.

Ayplicstion filed hovomher 29, 18%. 'Serial No, 660,079. (No model.)

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM l ii Yuan, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oshkosh, in the county ofti inne'hago and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirt-Pro tcetor Material; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andt cit-"act description thereof.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple economical dress-sliirt-protector material having certain advantages due to its structural peculiarities, hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and. subsequently claimed.

Figure 1 oi the drawings represents an inner side View of one form of my improved dressski'rbprotector material partly finished; Fig.

i 2, an outer side View of the material, and

ter being always of less width than the facing;

strip In the manufacture of the improved dressskirt-proteetor material the facing and binding strips being laid together face to face with longitudinaledges of both parallel they are united by a stitching operatioinand the hinding-strip is turned to form a fold concealing the seam. The aforesaid strips being now back to back. they are again stitched together to secure said fold. A cord 0 may be laid in the fold of the binl'lingstrip to stiffen the same, and in practice this cord will. he tucked under the scam concealed in said fold.

it is preferable that the facing-strip have an upper rear fold b and thatthis fold be made permanent by overcast stitching, as herein illustrated.

The dress-protector material herein soecitied is devoid of fullness above the bindingstrip, and consequently there is no ridge to take the wear that should properly come upon said binding-strip. It also follows that the said material will fit close to the dress-skirt upon which it may be employed and that there will be but slight increase of thickness at the bottom of the garment, although there is sufficien t stillness to insure of said garmenthanging in graceful folds, and the binding-strip has free yield to inequalities of surface upon which it may touch Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters latent, is

1. A skirt-protector material comprising a facing-strip, and a binding-strip of less Width than the facing-strip, this binding-strip heing stitched "to one side of said facingstrip, turned back away from the seam and stitched to the other side of the aforesaid faeing s' p, the original scam being concealed inside the fold formed by said binding-strip I 2. A shirt-protector material comprising a facing-strip, a binding-strip of less width than the facing-strip and a stiffening-cord, the binding-strip being stitched to one side of the facing-strip turned baolt away from the seam over the cord and stitched to the other a of said facing-strip, the original scrm l: concealed with the cord inside the folw to by said binding-strip.

In testimony that I claim the on oi l have hereunto set my hand, at Milwanhee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of tViscousin, in the presence of two witnesses" WILLIAM wrath Witnesses:

N. E. {)LIIII'ANJI, lino. W. YoUNG. 

